New York's Ice Cream Truck Turf Wars Get Ugly
It's not really summer if you're not complaining about ice cream. How could something so reminiscent of our innocent childhoods, so cold and so sweet, turn so foul?
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At some point over the next few weeks, the NYPD is likely to lose a civil trial criticizing it for repeatedly and on a massive scale violating the civil rights of city residents. The cops will probably blame the judge, mostly because it can't blame the numbers.
It's not really summer if you're not complaining about ice cream. How could something so reminiscent of our innocent childhoods, so cold and so sweet, turn so foul?
The New York City board of health held a public hearing on the Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposed ban on the sale of sugary soft drinks over 16 oz. Tuesday, allowed citizens, representatives from the beverage, movie, and restaurant industries, and city officials to express their thoughts, including Holocaust references.
If New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Council Speaker Christine Quinn's figures that same-sex marriages brought in some $259 million in economic benefits to the city are correct--that means gay marriages earned the city around $30,000 per hour since they were legalized one year ago.
In an especially Emperor's New Clothes sort of twist, a new store in Manhattan's East Village is selling New York City tap water that they filter via a special technique back to discriminating water consumers.
The New York Post follows Anthony Weiner's pro-family People photo shoot and interview with a front page today warning of "Operation Comeback!" Should we be so warned?
Just what the "Will he or won't he?" story about the political comeback of Anthony Weiner needs: a warm and fuzzy interview with People, complete with cute baby, and n non-denial denial about planning a 2013 run for New York City mayor.
Beyond the trend of New York City residents renting out their apartments or spare rooms or even just their couches via the website Airbnb.com, there is a new trend: New Yorkers really, really enjoy doing this. Oh how they love it.
In day two of the still theoretical political rehabilitation of Anthony Weiner, his wife, Huma Abedin, deputy chief of staff to Hillary Clinton, has taken a leading role, pushing for, according to the New York Post's sources for her husband to give a Bill Clinton-like tell-all interview.
The disgraced former Congressman is "seriously considering" a run to be New York City's mayor in 2013, and he already has $4.5 million from past campaigns to get him started, says pun filled reports from the New York Post.
Sure, New York City taxicab fares will go up 17% now that the the city approved a fair hike Thursday, but that will only affect those not savvy enough to get around it: So, tourists, plan to bring extra money when you visit the city.
It's not quite Dewey Defeats Truman, but The New York Post may come to regret its "OWS Murder Link" headline now that The New York Times is reporting that a DNA match supposedly linking a 2004 killing to a March protest was the result of a laboratory error.
If truth be told, the most worrisome thing about the new "micro" apartments New York City Mayor Bloomberg unveiled yesterday is not their size.
At a press conference today, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was asked about an upcoming march in protest of his proposed soda ban. The Mayor made it clear that he was less than amused.
The mechanics of a cheating scandal that's ensnared 71 students at New York's prestigious Stuyvesant High School were simple: Take cell-phone pictures of Regents exams, distribute via text, repeat.
Spike Lee shook Mitt Romney's hand, favors Bloomberg's soda ban, thinks we will gentrify The Atlantic Ocean, and other highlights from his New York Magazine interview with Will Leitch.
Amid recent noise about New York City's controversial "stop and frisk" policy, Reuters had done a deep dive into five years of worth of police data to see where (and to whom) the vast majority of searches take place.
It's a good thing most of us get the day off Wednesday as the heat is making some of us loopy, including New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who exhibited some comically bad timing with a meltdown at a press conference.
A New York Times editorial set to print on Tuesday highlights a ridiculous truth: unlike the rest of New York State, New York City still counts its ballots by hand. And not very well.
We don't know when it was determined that we could not read books of substance on the beach. But with the help of some literary-minded friends of The Atlantic Wire, we're calling hogwash on this verdict.
Fresh off the reports that Scientology operatives may be tailing Katie Holmes after she filed for divorce from Tom Cruise and moved to Manhattan, New York's finest have shown some support for the actress.
If you tweet something, you can't consider it private speech even if you later delete it, a New York judge ruled on Monday, denying for the second time a motion to quash a subpoena against an Occupy Wall Street protester arrested last October.
The American soft-drink industry does not want you to think about fatness. Because Bloomberg's ban on large sodas is not about obesity. It's about freedom. Fries. Freedom fries.
The subway used to be a place where New Yorkers could think, read, or openly gawk at strangers. Now we'll be checking our work email.
One year ago New York became the sixth state in the nation to recognize gay marriage. Now it will have to handle gay divorce. If we acknowledge that gay marriages can (and, based on the statistics for heterosexual couples, many of them will) fall apart, does it weaken the case for those marriages having existed in the first place?
As the street sweepers clear the glitter from the sidewalks and our cities fade back to their dull, non-rainbow colors, we bring you some dispatches from pride weekend.
Following Albany's failure to pass legislation allowing New York City to issue fines using up to 40 new speed cameras, Mayor Michael Bloomberg this morning suggested that perhaps he would look into the public shaming of bad drivers instead.
There appears to be something of a legal resolution in the controversial case of former NYPD officer Michael Pena, who was convicted of predatory sexual assault for oral and anal sodomy but not rape in May.
Alec Baldwin and Bristol Palin wouldn't seem to have that much in common: He's old, she's young, he's an accomplished actor, she's a politician's child, he is the left's worst spokesperson, she's the worst spokesman for the right. But they have something very important in common deep inside their souls: each hate hate hates the media while making a living in media.
The Washington Post's Sarah Kliff noted Tuesday that New Yorkers can expect to live longer than the rest of America, and a look at the data she used from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation reveals just how much longer: about three years.
Nothing ruins your night out quite like an open-container ticket, but if one Brooklyn judge gets his way, citations for drinking in public will become almost impossible to issue.
Even non-demographers won't find it terribly shocking that four of the nation's 25 zip codes with the biggest white influx over the past decade are in Brooklyn, New York, the most of any single state, let alone a city.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
New York mayor Michael Bloomberg admitted that the NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy needs to be amended in a speech on Sunday.
Mayor Bloomberg's 29-year-old daughter, Georgina, at "a cocktail soiree hosted by Stefano Tonchi for Gucci’s Frida Gianni last night," told New York's Daily Intel in response to a question about her dad's soda ban that "people should be allowed to make their own bad choices."
Though police already have a detailed confession from Pedro Hernandez, the alleged killer of Etan Patz, they took the unusual and melodramatic step of having him sign a photograph of the child, an image that has kept the case in the public mind for 33 years.
The Space Shuttle Enterprise is making its final approach to its new home at New York's Intrepid Sea Air and Space Museum, after traveling by air, land, and sea.
Declaring some part of New York City the "new" it spot is as much a trend as going to the beach in the summer. For your consideration: The Martha's Vineyard of the Bronx.
Seeing as how he's repeatedly defended the stop-and-frisk program and low-level pot arrests, we didn't expect New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to come out in favor of Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to partially decriminalize pot.
The City University of New York's project on 1940s New York launched today charting 1940's census information ...ooooh my gosh $30 dollar rents!
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has said he wants to stop police from arresting people for possessing small amounts of marijuana, a plan that won't sit will with New York City's mayor.
This morning, during his regular Friday radio appearance, Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended his public health policies in the wake of the uproar accompanying his big-soda ban.
Michael Bloomberg's plan to outlaw giant sodas in New York City has divided the town and the nation, but probably not in the way many people expected.
Those who've lived in New York City for a while remember fondly a time when not much of anything was banned at all. But there's an even darker side to bans. They widen the divide between the rich, who can find a way around them, and the poor, who perhaps cannot.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proposed a city-wide ban on sodas and other sugary drinks that are bigger than 16 ounces.
Remember the story of Richard Descoings, the French academic who died mysteriously in a Midtown hotel room last month? The mystery has been solved: he had a heart attack.
New York is expected to arraign the first legitimate suspect in the 33-year-old disappearance of Etan Patz as early as Friday, but from the facts made public by both police and reporters, there's as much reason to doubt they've got the right man as to believe it.
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn will get 150 new surveillance cameras meant to help catch child predators, but the footage will be controlled not by the police, but by an organization that's been accused of shielding child molesters from authorities.
Riding in a New York City taxi cab may occasionally feel like highway robbery, but try not to get mad at the cabbie: he's getting robbed, too.
The Metropolitan Opera learned on Tuesday that censoring the press, even your in-house press, does not lead to good publicity.
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